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Date:      Sat, 2 Sep 1995 11:50:10 -0400
From:      dennis@et.htp.com (dennis)
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions?
Message-ID:  <199509021550.LAA22427@mail.htp.com>

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>I'm a western digital biggot, and have historically stayed away from
>NE2000 cards, but I have a need to put together about 10 systems for
>some emergency radio work I'm doing and I wanted to get some newer
>opinions on the cards and the driver state, given the price difference
>between the two designs.
>
>Is the ed/NE2000 flavor of the driver reliable now?  Overruns?
>
>What kind of performance can I expect to see on a NE2000 vs a 16 bit SMC card
>when running FreeBSD?
>
>e.g. would you dare build a diskless NFS client with a NE2000 clone?
>

We use VLB NE2000 cards with the ed?  in our non-PCI machines and are very
happy. Both our NFS server and our main gateway system use them.

Dennis




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